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Instacart’s gig workers are planning a nationwide strike!

THE 001% BILLIONAIRES DIDN’T SAVE US

IT’S THE PEOPLE WHO PICK THE FOOD,  MAKE THE FOOD, DELIVER THE FOOD, FILL YOUR Prescriptions, JANITORS, TRASH COLLECTORS, ALL THE HOSPITAL WORKERS, FACTORY WORKERS MAKING MASKS, RESPIRATOR AND TESTING Covid-19 RESULTS

Our Tax Dollars are covering the VC’s burn with gig economy businesses that haven’t earned ONE dollar but are worth millions, and millions and millions on wall street.

Since the gutting of private-sector unions, the average American’s exposure to collective bargaining is public employee union strikes.

Founded in 2012, Instacart is an American technology company valued at nearly $8 billion that operates as a same-day grocery delivery and pick-up service in the U.S. and Canada.

Completely destroying the unions and tipping business vs the labor competition completely in favor of business is completely wrong. We don’t completely dismantle / abolish businesses whenever they exhibit “corrupt behavior”nd incompetent companies that defraud states and customers everyday while they bribe politicians to make their scams legal. No one went to Jail when the Banks closed the planet in 2008.

Amazon gave $25 million donation to support independent delivery drivers and seasonal employees under financial distress, which is nothing. Jeff Bezos did NOT close distribution centers where people have been infected and has offered unpaid time off only through March, a difficult proposition for many of its hourly workers.

“We shouldn’t let philanthropic generosity excuse corporate leadership failures,” Reich said. “There are many things CEOs can do in the context of their own companies that are as important if not more important than philanthropic efforts.”

Billionaires buy off the Senate. They pay off the congress to vote in their interests. Politicians are elected to protect and represent the people. Make billionaires illegal  to protect citizens from  paying off the congress.

Total Fail Jeff Bezos doesn’t pay taxes and bought Whole Foods.
Reich said. “There are many things CEOs can do in the context of their own companies that are as important if not more important than philanthropic efforts.”

Bezos refused to close distribution centers where people have been infected and has offered unpaid time off only through March, a difficult proposition for many of its hourly workers.

Amazon owns Whole Foods and has 36 million in Instacart. Apoorva Mehta, Max Mullen, Brandon Leonardo own Instacart
Bloomberg pegged it around $36 million.

From the Instacart post linked in the article:

>”As we previously shared, we’re offering up to 14 days of pay for any hourly employee or full-service shopper who is diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed in individual mandatory isolation or quarantine, as directed by a local, state, or public health authority.”[1]

So there is no benefits for workers who develop symptoms and self isolate? This statement reads like you have to go a hospital and be fortunate enough to be able to get a test. In many hotspots there is a shortage of tests. There also seems to be any mention of providing hand sanitizer, gloves, masks etc to these workers.

If you read the “previously shared” link in the above it states:

>”All Instacart part-time employees now have access to sick pay, an accrued benefit that can be used as paid time off if you are absent from work due to illness or injury. We’ve previously offered sick pay in select states — now, all part-time employees across North America, including in-store shoppers, will be able to accrue sick time to use as needed in the event that they become ill. All sick pay accrual will be backdated from the start of the year, so all hours worked by our in-store shoppers since then will count towards their current, individual sick pay balance.”

An “accrued” benefit that will be backdated to the beginning of the year(we’re only in month 3 of the year.)I’m guessing this would yield maybe 2 or 3 days max. That barely puts a dent into two weeks of self-isolation and no work.

This all rings quite hollow.

Uber et al. have not paid unemployment and other benefits for these “contractors” that are now supposed to receive exactly these benefits. It is literally a bailout for their workforce.

Problem-Solving Billionaires Can’t Solve Every American Problem

Peter Thiel bet on Trump. He spoke in Trump’s support at the Republican National Convention.

Amazon’s <supposed> philanthropic efforts have included a $25 million donation to support independent delivery drivers and seasonal employees under financial distress. But so far it has resisted closing distribution centers where people have been infected and has offered unpaid time off only through March, a difficult proposition for many of its hourly workers.

VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO

“We shouldn’t let philanthropic generosity excuse corporate leadership failures,” Reich said. “There are many things CEOs can do in the context of their own companies that are as important if not more important than philanthropic efforts.”

Wealthy business owners could, however, make the biggest impact by helping their workers stay employed and healthy. Still, some of the largest companies including Amazon have been accused of not doing enough.

As Americans adapt to shuttered schools, restaurants and offices, the coronavirus pandemic is exposing shortcomings in the U.S. social-safety net and a system that relies heavily on philanthropists to fill the gaps.

San Francisco, Seattle and other cities with high concentrations of ultra-high-net-worth individuals are getting more money than less affluent ones. Meanwhile, some philanthropists have so far been absent from the relief efforts as nonprofits worry the .001% may be guarded in their giving with a global recession all but assured.

COVID is going to be the excuse for many companies that are over the head with debt/investors money and still are running losses.

Sounds like a pyramid scheme: invest in a startup first so that you find other investors for a subsequent round so that you can IPO and sell it all off to the next suckers who are hoping to do the same. Just don’t be the one left holding the bag. Bird is gonna use this pandemic as an excuse, when they had other big problems to deal with already. This is just business as usual for Unicorns, Lyft and Uber are the same way.

Airbnb to Halt All Marketing, Most Hiring as Losses Mount

Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call. Bird denies it was a precorded call but it was. How is it a company that rents scooter need 1,387 employees? it is their legions of gig workers recharging the scooters.

Why Zoom Video’s Sky-High Stock Will Fall to Earth When Pandemic Ends

The economy hasn’t made sense at all over the past 10 years. Companies have been hiring people just for show. Startups are all about putting up smoke and mirrors to appeal to a bunch of dumb investors. Snap never made a profit in almost a decade yet its market cap is $17 billion. Uber hasn’t made a profit in over a decade, market cap is $50 billion.

If you want to understand why things are like this, just look at how the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States is constantly injecting new fiat money into the economy and you will have all the answers.

Who’s freezing hiring from coronavirus

So if people are broke, landlords are broke, stores are broke, companies are broke — just who exactly has the keys to the kingdom here?

Who isn’t broke? Just banks?